Police: No specific threat made to Scarborough elementary schools

An individual suspected of making a threat toward Scarborough's elementary schools has been identified and police said Thursday that "no specific threat was ever made."

The principals at Scarborough's elementary schools sent a letter home to parents and staff Thursday morning notifying them that additional officers would be assigned to the schools.

"I really feel that with what everybody has been through with the schools in this country, to hear something like that was absolutely frightening, it made me want to come over here and pull her out of the school. Just for the day until everything was OK, but it really scared me," said Donna Cleaves of her granddaughter.

According to that letter, Scarborough police were tipped off by a creditor, who said a person made a verbal threat during a phone call Wednesday.

However, Scarborough police said on Thursday afternoon that the individual suspected of making the threat had been identified and interviewed by police. "(The) investigation revealed no specific threat was ever made to Scarborough schools," DetectIve Sgt. Rick Rouse said in a press release. The investigation is continuing, he said.

The letter, signed by the principals at Blue Point, Eight Corners Elementary and Pleasant Hill schools, said: "While this was an indirect and second-hand threat, we take all such matters extremely seriously."

"I know the principal well. I know the teachers very well, and I thought if there was more of a threat that they would cancel school," said Sharri Olsen.

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